New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-08
NEED or INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
AN ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT GILMAN.

IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING THE HAND--H0w THH
WORK MUST BE DONE
President d. c. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University.
gave opening lecture OF the Industrial Education As
socaons fornishy yesterday afternoon at No.
8 University lace General Alexander 8. Wsob. prest
dent OF tho Industrial Education Association tue
platform and introduced the lecturer. Tue hall
filed. many people standing all through she
talk rhrec-tourhs OF the audience women. mauy
them teachers In the public schools interested In the
| new mammal training system. EIschooi Commissioner
Wood was on hand and so was Commissioner Grace
Dodge.
President Gilmans topic was Handcraft In Educa-
ton" He spoke from notes. but In easy conyersa-
tonal manner like teacher to fellow teachers as he
himself put It. He began by calling attention TO tho
wonderful and :he power pn Importance OF
the hand. Tho Romans valued the thumb above the
other digits. but now the rule othumb" was only
synonym OF weakness The hand should be restored .
Its former Importance; manual Labor so long looked
down upon. shoulI be dignibed again By betug made
profitable, AMI in sense artstic. No member better
repays results the time and attention given to IL The
effort OF every laboratory to extend the power
OF the hand and the power OF the eye. And 40 hand
craft and thu training Of the eye that accompanies II
had place only In tho common schools. put In the
high sahools and universities well. Tue training OF
the hand In so not simply the training OF simple
physical organ. In educating tho hand the brain 10
reached also. The two rsact upon each other and
streng On the the hancrafts-
man cultivates his brain Is tho better workman.
and tho literary man is the moro
accurate will he be, the clearer thinker the
reader Of conception aud fancy. The hand aud sye to.
eethcr are invaluable In the cultivation OF the brain.
The rudimens OF handicratt, President Gilman con-
tuued may DO introduced into the schools with great
ease little For girls. and even for boys there
were the needle aud the scissors Cutting and making
dress were delightful and rewardins OF tasks
Alongside OF the and cede the knife.
FIJI nd tai hap " nj fhesA
WAS the pencil Drawing lay as the fodn aton OF all
indus rial ars. Its object was not 10 make pretty pcs
ures hut the most precse and svil LANGUAGE
can use-,ha o. 'ines aaa surfaces An S Oh ~ tds
teacher himself. The demand Tor more manual tralng
ior DIN steal culture Il came people chiefly
who have always taut ut from tue .rin.ea Pare,
research have argued for frecr system OF MANUAL 10
struction. The great defect OF education nowsaays
wns that IL taught the Young 10 value tho printed boOk
Alone spelling the :eyes with bal h. and bad ype and
neglrctinA entirely the cultivation the eye anu maud.
large part OF the shsownes: nacenraey sovrnliness
and vaseness the present day was undoubtedly duo
10 failure the rat Of school systems 10 'eI1n ,Ss
faithful careful reproduction oy the hanu or hna' to
mtnd has thought ont. . . ,,,. ., "a,
tie new rvstem introduced into ,he common senoois
Efots TO set industrial training aoo have been vasue
so far school boards we're TOO olten over
AMI Slow TO ADOPT even The hest SUGGESTIONS The way
out was that private enterprise anu inividua sno
b. nd nsylams deaf and dumb a,yium' even o'ekrs.
had at nrst started by private ,u scriptiou osoS
tue state came to their AID IN" lucas mus. NC sp az
nj All 1
would bp some hope Of enlisting the supp VI tu
ubIc school aut aoritea In the SOUTH the lecturer au
hear there was unusual intercnt Ia me new education:
ana general iecoguit. of tue Importance OF nanS'
trnuS 10 progress. In ono town 40 kno" ot.
fhr school au uorities allowed pupils 10 cone uu'u,s
MARI OF tne school ay private manual training .ou
daton Ana was as reasonable soiu ,s a. '
I"nmsrrn Education Association could nave iooheu lot,
~ mammal training schools. they should begin "itu
rudmentary work. advsncng by STAGES &'p.eu ~ ano
saol scholar. In thr5e Iudiuchtary st"S'e
The cost OF tue teaohIng should not 70 zoo re Ue
onid zoo mcu skill expected OF the teacher bim'ei
IRA wing SHOULD rs tho undam"nta orahcn tausuc
Ths rtsn OF training should be nticd 10 school NOUS
and school ways SHOULD be started AS AUXILIARY 10
Ins nublic schools by private subscription fampntels
on ,ha pect suOnll be kept circulating ana tue asita
Inn maintained Use must 10 tDaie OF the eAPe,irneo
nulateI abroad, aud a. may Fr nch' brisiau.
SSeIisn anu German reports as possioie s,ouu ,n
tr,usiated and distributed here. Above All thr plis
ciul. should be enforced and repeated That TUG ns
traips tho uiud the mind the hanu alu sne Syo aI
And tns re- sut OF such framing Is good from tho so'
economical aud moral slsndpo .. a., ,,.,v
Paris President Gilman said In ciosihs' as -, ~ "A
WAYS the Industrial centre Of the world IN sp,s n
,'s wsiane and misortunss IL had held mat poslse
av.r s,ncs Cober gave aud dignity 10 nanucs
nv encouraging and rewardins It, hs see ani Of
inakinxIsk,ilsd ARTISAN "Lu INC Mv"u0'"' ''
Paris aver since has been tho RESULT